Wisdom of Solomon 14:10-18
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10 For that which is made shall be punished together with him that made it.
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11 Therefore even upon the idols of the Gentiles shall there be a visitation: because in the creature of God they are become an abomination, and stumblingblocks to the souls of men, and a snare to the feet of the unwise.
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12 For the devising of idols was the beginning of spiritual fornication, and the invention of them the corruption of life.
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13 For neither were they from the beginning, neither shall they be for ever.
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14 For by the vain glory of men they entered into the world, and therefore shall they come shortly to an end.
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15 For a father afflicted with untimely mourning, when he hath made an image of his child soon taken away, now honoured him as a god, which was then a dead man, and delivered to those that were under him ceremonies and sacrifices.
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16 Thus in process of time an ungodly custom grown strong was kept as a law, and graven images were worshipped by the commandments of kings.
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17 Whom men could not honour in presence, because they dwelt far off, they took the counterfeit of his visage from far, and made an express image of a king whom they honoured, to the end that by this their forwardness they might flatter him that was absent, as if he were present.
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18 Also the singular diligence of the artificer did help to set forward the ignorant to more superstition.